>Subject: RMS can claw back aspects of his GCC copyrights , then have standing to sue violators. (such as Grsecurity)
Since the structure and organization of a programme is Copyrightable
>750 F.3d 1339 at 1380
And RMS set down said structure and organization of GCC, being the
Author of said such programme (of the computational sort), quite some
many moons ago. In the 80s.
And the Copyright Act has a statutory claw-back provision(+) for Authors
to regain their copyrights, regardless of whatsoever contract or
conveyyance they have used to indeed alienate that copyright from
themselves.(++)
>+ 17 U.S. Code §203
>+ (3) Termination of the grant may be effected at any time during a period of five years beginning at the end of thirty-five years from the date of execution of the grant; ...
>++ Milne ex Rel. Coyne v. Stephen Slesinger 430 F.3d 1036 (9th Cir. 2005)
And that statutory claw-back time period is fast approaching.
It is UNTRUE that RMS can do nothing because the FSF owns the GCC
copyrights.
RMS can execute the following plan of action:
Understand that the structure and organization of a programme is a
copyrightable aspect. Understand that HE is indeed the Author of that
aspect. Understand that ifsoever anyone else in the world Copied that
aspect of GCC, they indeed would implicate the GCC copyrights: they
would have to follow the GCC copyright owners instructions regarding
licensing so on and so forth.
Understand that he still is the Author of that aspect, that
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